---
typeId: req
recordId: benac-sys-007
fields:
  title: Agent-neutral kernel scope
  statement: Benac Core shall not define or require agent cognition, agent goals,
    planner state, recovery strategies, memory architecture, autonomous loops, workflow
    semantics, task decomposition, environment-change proposal semantics, or
    model-specific reasoning behavior. Such behavior belongs in agents, packages,
    descriptors, external clients, prompts, user interfaces, or optional future profile
    additions. Benac Core shall define the semantic substrate needed for such clients to
    inspect, author, validate, invoke, compose, store, compute, diagnose, audit, and
    request authority under Local Policy.
  rationale: Benac should be a legible test track and road system, not an agent design.
    Agents must be able to grow and experiment on top of Benac without requiring the
    kernel to know what kind of agent is driving.
  verification: Requirements review confirms no baseline requirement mandates agent
    goals, planner state, recovery loops, workflow semantics, or model-specific
    reasoning behavior. Conformance tests exercise package authoring, fixture
    execution, invocation, diagnostics, storage/compute lease requests, causal record
    linking, and inspection without depending on any specific agent architecture.
  testable: true
  status: draft
  area: BENAC-SYS
  sourceDocument: operator ticket 266e382d-cab9-4be7-b70c-6cfb7b49dccb
  sourceVersion: 2026-05-04
  sourceSections:
    - 10.3 Host-neutral and platform scope
  order: 36.1
---
